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From Century Magazine,  Vol. LXXIII, New Series: Vol. LI,
November, 1906, to April, 1907; The Century Co., New York; p. 484.

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Drawn by A. D. Blashfield


        Beauty On The Box



    TALK of tennis, boating, golfing,
    Polo, hunting, hounds, and horse;
    Cite the gentler joys of dalliance
    Down Love’s primrose-bordered course:
    But for me the pole-chains’ jingle,
    Siren strains their music mocks,
    When the coach-horn sounds “To places!”
    With Miladi on the box.


    She’s an expert with the ribbons
    (Whether handling steed or swain),
    Grip of steel beneath the velvet
    Of her grasp of whip and rein.
    Jove! she tools her four divinely
    (Got Batonyi beaten blocks).
    “Clear the road!” the coach-horn clamors,
    “Way for Beauty on the box!”


    Playful lead and plunging wheeler
    Answer to that skilful rein
    Each a puppet to her power
    (True alike of steed and swain).
    “Clear the road!” the coach-horn clamors,
    Here’s a truce to Fortune’s “knocks,”
    With a straight stretch down Love’s highway
    And Miladi on the box.


    Leigh Gordon Giltner.